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Re:Tarot Chess on Saturday March 08, 2014 @09:23PM (#7367189)
Just Javascript & recent Firefox/Chrome.
Re:Tarot Chess on Saturday March 08, 2014 @08:09PM (#7367049)
the cards power up the pawns in this game so advancing two squares to speed up the game is unnecessary (it gets hectic pretty quickly)
be evil
Re:Nov. 22, 1963: 50 years, and still no conspiracy on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:53AM (#6626043)
Come on, who bumped this shit? Or was it several of you, in collusion?
Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages? on Thursday October 10, 2013 @09:17AM (#6527407)
too similar to python
1. By reading the source code of tape programs and magazine source listings. The BBC Micro boots to a command prompt and has Basic in ROM, so that was fairly helpful... and from then on for other languages, self-taught by viewing source code. 2. As soon as i could! (aged about 7) 3. My second job, after 3 months of hell in telesales.
Re:Google Email Spying Ruled Unlawful on Friday September 27, 2013 @04:31AM (#6455930)
no such thing as a free email account
Re:Rainyday.js on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:56AM (#6431819)
make it under 1k and i'll be impressed. it's just too darn big!
Re:Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:28AM (#6327777)
So he was wrong then? NS6/firefox seems to be doing alright today... Rewriting your OWN codebase from scratch certainly makes it get better with each iteration - as long as "from scratch" implies constantly referring to the old code.
Re:Javascript asynchronous problems on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:10AM (#6236270)
that explains my issues with <10ms setTimeouts, thanks!